The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-06

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accumulated guilt that do,cs from all
the liquor that his vote permits to be4
sold, should, even in anticipation of
such vote, cause every heart to fut.
ter with dismay, and every man to
resolve that such guilt shall never
attach to himl 1t is of no avail to
say, III do not kno,o ,oho ,oiH fill a
drmkards grave as result Of the
continuance Of the liquor traffic; and
therefore my vote can have no such
criminal bearing as that to which you
REFER" for everybody knows that so
many deaths will result from the
continuance of the traffic, and that
all other evils mentioned above,
must follow its continuance; so that
it makes not the least difference
whether you know the names of the
parties or not, the evil consequences
will come upon some-upon many OF
your fellow men, and this you can :
not fail to know. In voting for the
traffic, you necessarily, in effect, vote
for all the harm, damage, blight, loss
and death, likely to follow the per-
petuation of the accursed traffic. Can
any man be q true patriot, real
philanthropist, a genuine Christian
and cast such a voter Does not
every one know that all the devils in
pandemonium, if admitted to vote on
this question, would, without excep-
ton vote against Prohibition? And
does not every one know, also, that
if good angles were permitted tovote
on it, they would vote for .Prohibi-
tion2 This fight for Prohibition is
part of the great battle between
Heaven and He'll; and the result,
sooner or later, must accord with the
will of the Omnipotent.
Batting few honorable, but mis-
guided exceptions, there is not the
least comparison, except by contrast,
between the friends and advocates OF
these two measures; and if all the
friends Of Prohibition were perman-
emily withdrawn from the state, the
moral tone of society would probably
be lowered a thousand fold. For on
the one side is virtue, on the other
vice; on the one purity, on the other
corruption on this sobriety, on that
drunkenness; here we find the relig-
ious, the noble, the pure and the true;
there the irreligious, the ignoble, the
corrupt and the false; in the one par
ty we find the friends of humanity,
in the other the enemies of our race;
the one class are governed by princi-
pie, the other by the love OF gain;
these are willing to make any reason
able sacrifice to elevate, ennoble and
dignity the human family; those are
content that the race of mankind
shall, in large numbers live dishonor-
ed lives, die ignoble deaths, fill dis
honored graves, and people an eter-
nal hell, provided only they can
make these ill-gotten gains.
vi. SUMMARY OF REASONS THAT M
PEI THE CHRISTIAN, THE PAT
RIOT, AND PHILANTHRoPIsT, TO
VOTE FOR PROHIBITION.
/. He desires to save the fifteen
hundred million dollars annually aoas-
ted in the manufacture and sale OF
intoxicating liquors.
2. He greatly desires to discon-
tinue the annual destruction of his
fellow men, amounting in the aggre-
gate, it is credibly estimated, to the
enormous sum of eleUen hundred
thousand gears, or more, of nannhood
life, in the death of the sixty thous-
and victims, whose lives are shorten
ed from five to fifty years each. This
wholesale slaughter he wishes to
stop.
3. He is anxious to prevent other
sirty thousands of his countrymen
from losing their regulations, their
characters, their happiness and their
precious immortal souls, all which
unspeakably sad losses, he knows,
will continue if Prohibition fails.
4. He desires most ardently to see
the time come-and come as soon as
possible-wher women and children
will no longer be reduced to poverty
I and disgrace, through the drunken